Balancing personal life with school!
College Sophomore
Sierra College, Rocklin, California

I know from personal experience that if you do not balance your personal life with school, it simply does not work. During the Summer I spent just above every minute of my life either working or doing school work, and by Sunday I felt like I was literally going insane. And crazy as it sounds, by Sunday I was anticipating going back to school just to get away from all the actual homework and boredom of sitting at home. I felt like I was going insane. That's why I feel it is a very important point that Dr. Phillip Rosenkrantz brought up about balance. Without balance, you will lose focus of school. You will lose focus of why you are doing what you're doing, what's important in your life, and why you care.

In his 'how-to' article, he covers just above every part of being successful in education, from scheduling your classes to being a successful tester. I especially enjoyed his advice on taking notes, as I am a horrible note taker myself. As he points out, Math, Science and Engineering majors are certainly not the type of classes you can "cram" for, so in order to succeed you need to have a definitive plan, and Dr. Rosenkrantz gives all the tools you'll ever need to help make that plan work.

Engineering
Isaac Jackson, College Junior
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

This was a good resource, however, it did not just pertain to engineering. The part about pre-planning could be used by anyone in any degree program. The only part that was about engineering was when it talked about the different classes that needed to be taken. Overall this is a good resource and will help in coming freshman learn how to plan out their time and know the amount of time need to succeed.